Lake · Croatia
Lake Prokljan
Lake
- Area
- 19.3km²
- Average depth
- 28m
- Elevation
- 0m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 66km
- Volume
- 0.531km³
Lake Prokljan is a lake in Croatia. It covers 19.3 km². On average it is 28 m deep. Its surface lies 0 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Lake Prokljan?
The water is warmest in July, around 26 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 8 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from June to September: comfortable for most swimmers.
It does not normally freeze in winter.
On the shore, afternoons reach 30 °C on average in August and 8 °C in January. The driest month is July (40 mm of rain), the wettest November (129 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (86 readings). Shallow bays and beaches are often warmer.
From above
The whole lake from space
Month by month
The year at the lake, month by month
Not a forecast: these are averages over many years. Water is the 2013–2021 average; air, rain, sun and wind are the 1991–2020 average.
Water: 2013–2021 averageClimate: 1991–2020 average
| Month | Water°C | Water high°C | Air high°C | Air low°C | Rainmm | Rainy daysdays | Sunh/day | Windkm/h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 90 | 10 | 2.5 | 17 |
| February | 8 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 89 | 9 | 3.3 | 18 |
| March | 11 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 75 | 9 | 5.0 | 17 |
| April | 15 | 17 | 17 | 9 | 68 | 11 | 6.4 | 14 |
| May | 20 | 22 | 22 | 13 | 66 | 10 | 7.8 | 13 |
| June | 24 | 26 | 27 | 18 | 55 | 8 | 9.6 | 12 |
| July | 26 | 27 | 30 | 20 | 40 | 6 | 10.5 | 12 |
| August | 26 | 26 | 30 | 20 | 50 | 6 | 9.3 | 12 |
| September | 22 | 24 | 24 | 15 | 102 | 9 | 6.4 | 14 |
| October | 17 | 19 | 19 | 11 | 96 | 10 | 4.6 | 14 |
| November | 12 | 14 | 14 | 8 | 129 | 13 | 2.7 | 17 |
| December | 9 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 110 | 11 | 2.4 | 17 |
Water: LakeTEMP (Landsat 8, 2013–2021). Air, rain, sun and wind: NASA POWER, 1991–2020 averages. A rainy day has at least 1 mm of rain. Sunshine hours are derived from measured solar radiation.
Size & depth
How big, how deep
- On average, water stays in the lake for about 4 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 2,478 km² of land.
- About 47 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 4.2 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Lake Prokljan
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 12beaches and swimming spots
Banj, Zvizda, Šarina draga, Klauzovac, Plaža Draga and 7 more
- 3campsites
Skradinske delicije, Auto-kamp Skradin-Skorići
- 3boat hire and water-sport clubs
Veslački klub Krka - Šibenik, Sibenik-Rowing
- 8marinas and slipways
Luka Šibenik, Marina Zaton, D-Marin Mandalina, ACI Marina Skradin and 4 more
- 8ferry piers
Luka Šibenik, Skradinski buk, Taxi Boat, Skradin, Šibenik and 3 more
- 28viewpoints
- 91hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Skradinski buk, Pension Šibenik, Šibenik Apartments Stars, Indigo, Ille Apartments and 86 more
- —fishing spots
- 145restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Šibenik31,115 people
- Bilice2,546 people
- Skradin508 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Split Saint Jerome Airport (SPU), 46 km in a straight line.
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Recent years
How each month compared
Afternoon high on the shore. The first row is the reference, the 1991–2020 average in °C; the years below show the difference from it: warmer in orange, cooler in blue.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991–2020 average | 8.1 | 9.1 | 12.7 | 17.0 | 21.7 | 26.7 | 30.2 | 30.2 | 24.3 | 19.3 | 14.2 | 9.5 |
| 2020 | +1.4 | +2.9 | +0.2 | +0.9 | −0.1 | −1.5 | ±0.0 | +1.1 | +1.7 | −1.1 | −0.1 | +1.9 |
| 2021 | −0.2 | +1.9 | −1.0 | −2.4 | −1.2 | +2.2 | +1.7 | +0.8 | +1.9 | −1.0 | +0.7 | +0.1 |
| 2022 | +0.1 | +1.7 | −0.6 | −1.0 | +2.7 | +3.5 | +3.1 | +1.1 | −0.2 | +3.5 | +1.0 | +2.8 |
| 2023 | +1.6 | +0.2 | +1.0 | −1.6 | −0.1 | −0.9 | +1.2 | +0.5 | +3.0 | +4.0 | +0.9 | +2.5 |
| 2024 | +1.9 | +4.1 | +2.4 | +1.7 | +0.6 | +1.8 | +2.6 | +3.5 | +0.3 | +1.7 | +0.5 | +0.4 |
| 2025 | +2.4 | +1.9 | +1.8 | +1.2 | −0.3 | +4.0 | +0.8 | +0.8 | +2.0 | −0.4 | +0.4 | +2.0 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
Nearby
More lakes nearby
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| Outline, area, depth, volume | HydroLAKES v1.0 (Messager et al. 2016) · CC BY 4.0 |
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| Water temperature and ice | LakeTEMP v1 (Korver et al. 2024), Landsat 8 2013–2021 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Air, rain, sun, wind | NASA POWER, 1991–2020 · public domain |
| Names and description | Wikidata (Q694089) · CC0 |
| Around the shore | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
Every figure is an average or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
